Live Roulette Statistics: Spain’s Shift Towards Live Play
Live roulette statistics tell a different story when the game is separated from software roulette. In Spain’s nationally licensed online market, live roulette generated a calculated 91.45% of roulette gross gaming revenue in 2025, up from 82.27% in 2021. Those shares come from the regulator’s separate live and conventional roulette revenue series, not from a player survey. (DGOJ annual data)
The change was not simply a growing market lifting both formats. Live roulette revenue nearly doubled between those endpoints, while conventional roulette revenue ended the period below its starting point. (Calculated from DGOJ annual data)
This is a study of one regulated online market, not a worldwide popularity ranking. The useful question is what changed within Spain, and how far the figures allow us to explain it.
The scope: online roulette, not every roulette table in Spain
The DGOJ publishes an annual series for Spain’s state-level online gambling market and provides access to its historical data. Its annual publication brings together the regulator’s quarterly online-market reporting. (DGOJ reporting scope)
For this analysis, we keep the two roulette categories separate: live roulette and conventional roulette. We use “RNG roulette” as the reader-facing shorthand for the conventional category, rather than introducing a third category. The results concern the reported online market; they are not a measurement of physical casino tables, electronic roulette terminals or unlicensed play. (DGOJ annual dataset)
Live roulette revenue rose 96% between 2021 and 2025
Live roulette GGR increased from €117.30 million in 2021 to €229.93 million in 2025. That is a calculated increase of 96.02%, equivalent to an 18.32% compound annual growth rate across the four year-to-year intervals. (Calculated from DGOJ annual data)
Conventional roulette followed a different path. Its GGR rose initially, peaked within this five-year series in 2023, then fell to €21.50 million in 2025, approximately 14.97% below its 2021 level. (Calculated from DGOJ annual data)
| Year | Live roulette GGR | Conventional / RNG GGR | Combined roulette GGR | Live share of roulette GGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 (DGOJ) | €117.30m | €25.29m | €142.59m | 82.27% |
| 2022 (DGOJ) | €150.46m | €26.06m | €176.51m | 85.24% |
| 2023 (DGOJ) | €189.00m | €27.14m | €216.14m | 87.44% |
| 2024 (DGOJ) | €209.67m | €24.78m | €234.45m | 89.43% |
| 2025 (DGOJ) | €229.93m | €21.50m | €251.44m | 91.45% |
Amounts are nominal euros. Combined revenue and live shares are our calculations from unrounded source values; displayed components may not add exactly because of rounding.
The live share increased in every year shown, gaining 9.18 percentage points from the first year to the last. By 2025, live roulette generated about 10.69 times as much GGR as conventional roulette in this reporting scope. (Calculated from DGOJ annual data)
Live roulette accounted for more than the net revenue increase
Combined roulette GGR increased by €108.85 million between 2021 and 2025. Live roulette added €112.63 million, while conventional roulette declined by €3.78 million, partially offsetting the live category’s increase. (Calculated from DGOJ annual data)
That distinction matters when describing “roulette growth”. In this dataset, the combined category expanded despite the decline in conventional roulette between the endpoints; it was not a case of both formats growing together. (DGOJ annual data)
This is an accounting breakdown of the change, not an explanation of its cause. It does not tell us whether live roulette attracted new customers, existing customers increased their wagering, or spending shifted between products.
Revenue and money wagered tell different stories
The distinction becomes especially clear in the latest year of the series. Live roulette wagering increased by a calculated 24.57% from 2024 to 2025, while live roulette GGR increased by 9.66%. (Calculated from DGOJ annual data)
| Live roulette measure | 2024 | 2025 | Calculated change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amount wagered (DGOJ) | €8.122bn | €10.117bn | +24.57% |
| Gross gaming revenue (DGOJ) | €209.67m | €229.93m | +9.66% |
The €10.117 billion figure measures wagering turnover, not the amount of new money deposited or the operators’ revenue; the corresponding reported GGR is €229.93 million. Treating the larger figure as “the live roulette market’s revenue” would confuse two different measures. (DGOJ annual dataset)
Even the market-share calculation depends on the chosen measure. Live roulette accounted for 91.34% of combined roulette wagering in 2025, compared with 91.45% of combined roulette GGR. The two figures are close, but they answer different questions. (Calculated from DGOJ annual data)
A 91% revenue share does not mean 91% of players
The revenue-share calculation divides live roulette GGR by live plus conventional roulette GGR. It contains no player count, so it cannot establish the proportion of roulette players who chose live games.
A smaller group wagering more could generate more revenue than a larger group wagering less. Some customers could also play both formats, making their populations overlap.
For the same reason, these totals do not establish that players migrated from RNG to live roulette. A switching claim would need evidence that follows customers across products, rather than separate annual revenue totals.
What this says about roulette, and what it does not
The supported conclusion is that live roulette increased its economic weight within Spain’s reported on